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Street lights. sunlight is the best disinfectant and a street light is the best security guard. we have to invest in in street lights, get commerce back up. this is an opportunity crisis. our unemployment rate in new york is two and a half times the national avenue. we have to get storefront reese opened, specialized sba facility that applies this concept across the country whether its little rock, arkansas, or new york city or des moines, iowa, getting storefronts reopened to compete with big b...

Because the problems are not republican problems. they are not democratic problems. they are all of our problems. im very proud the speaker made this a bipartisan committee. there are other committees in the texas house and texas senate that we look at this report. look at the facts that we found here, and discuss and debate the policy that needs to be changed to try to make texas children safer going forward in the future. i am a policy maker. my colleagues up here are policy makers and have st...

Emergency. i think this is a time when every policy maker needs to think about things that they wouldnt have done unusual times. we are now dealing with rogue state lawmakers that are passing unconstitutional law and a supreme court that is being nonresponsive. we need everyone to act. >> fatima goss graves, thank you for your time, tonight fatima is the president and ceo of the national womens law center. we always appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. up next, we are going live to toky...

Reports of people deleting their apps that they used to track menstrual cycles. and a lot of worry that governors, attorney generals, local district attorneys will use that data -- that unsecured data -- to prosecute women, to prosecute providers, to prosecute those supporting them. it is also unsafe. and so having more guidance there is important. >> there is still a lot of pushback against the administration, with people saying it is too timid. they could be doing much more. what is your take ...

Fing rs at each other. clearly law enforcement failed at every level, the local level, the state trooper level. at every level there was system failure and human error. we have to get beyond that. we cant be hiding behind a criminal investigation. we need accountability and transparency so that this never happens again. as a policy maker, im concerned that the governor has put $4 billion on the border and the law enforcement entity that was there probably had 40 or 50 cops on scene, wasnt part o...

My point as a policy maker, the third function of my job is to make sure this doesnt happen again. how in the world are we going to be able to do anything if we cant figure out what happened in that building in those 40 minutes? the governor wants to talk about school safety, i think that the issues here are bigger than that. how in the world are we going to find out if the school is safe or not if we dont have the information. the errors that occurred here, the systemic failure, human errors th...

Because and very few instances have a mass shooter stop to pick a lock, or attempt to break into a locked door, because they usually do want to get to victims, and he moved quickly. >> theres this question of the actual, numerical risk of this. which in the grand scheme of things is relatively low, in the firearms are leading cause of death for children. was it that is happening not in a kind of context like eovaldi or santa fe. but, also, its not crazy that this looms large in the minds of pray...

Their willingness to do on 2:50 years of president, with the shock of a pan. thats unfortunate, and its deeply troubling, it should not have happened, we should not be in this position, but it is what happened -- with a political agenda. thats why it wasnt surprising. >> what kind of impact do you think these protests and public outcry could that have, potentially, do you think? >> there is a good question. i dont think we know for sure. we may have an effect on the court, but it may not. the ju...

So they got these texts. what else do you think that might be open to hear from him? and just these messages, do they reveal enough to help their case? >> definitely filed their case. this is so beyond the pale of a former press relationship, right? hes not even being just a mouthpiece for the government, hes been a policy maker. he is taking advice from meadows, giving advice to meadows. this is the antithesis of what you think an organ of the press id be doing. but the real focus now, he proba...

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